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Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date.

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Image credits: X/@Hispaniceng Astronomers have discovered an immensely powerful "zombie star" speeding through the Milky Way galaxy at an alarming speed of 110,000 mph. While asteroids ...

“What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size and stellar mass,” she adds. Its disk spans over 60,000 light-years, comparable to our own galaxy, and contains ...

to explore supernova wreckage in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The supernova remnant in question is MC SNR J0519–6902, first discovered in 1981.

This celestial lineup is an optical illusion caused by their shared orbital plane, the ecliptic, which slices through the night sky at a striking angle to the Milky Way. It’s a stunning moment that ...

The incredibly compact object, which is one of only 30 known magnetars in the Milky Way, was first discovered in 2008, when it was around 15,000 light-years from Earth.

A team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole drifting through the Milky Way ... out at about three solar masses. This finding solidified the object's identity as a black ...

Solar energy continues to grow as more installations take place. A new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) says the US solar energy industry installed 50 gigawatts of direct ...

Recent advancements in solar thermoelectric generators (STEGs) have brought us closer to efficiently converting solar heat into electricity, with promising applications in wearable electronics ...